Think before you speak; or, The three wishes. A tale. By the Author of The peacock at home.

ID 9944
Title Think before you speak; or, The three wishes. A tale. By the Author of The peacock at home.
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Signed Author By the Author of The peacock at home.
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Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination 32
Date of Publication 1810
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Date of First Publication 1809
Imprint Published by Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market Street. J. Bouvier, Printer.
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
Format Unknown ()
Length (cm) 13
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  • Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 297.1
Notes [6] leaves of plates :ill.
AAS Notes: In verse.
Caption title: The three wishes.
By Catharine Ann Dorset. "The following tale is principally taken from the admirable work of Madame de Beaumont (Le Magazin des Enfans) ..."--Preface.
Cover has imprint date of 1811.
Plates probably engraved by William Charles. Cf. Weiss, Harry B. William Charles, early caricaturist, engraver and publisher of children's books, New York, 1932, p. 10. First plate inserted twice: pasted to inside cover and as frontispiece opposite title page.
"At Johnson & Warner's juvenile bookstore, may be had ..."--advertisement, back cover.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821,
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Early American children's books,
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Dorset, Catherine Anne Turner, Leprince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie. Think before you speak; or, The three wishes. A tale. By the Author of The peacock at home.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 9944, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/9944. Accessed 2025-01-17.

Dorset, Catherine, A., T., and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Think before you speak; or, The three wishes. A tale. By the Author of The peacock at home. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1810. 

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